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The Scroll newspaper has been in print since 1905, when BYU-Idaho was known as the Ricks Academy, a locally run school with a newly-developed high school program. At the time this newspaper was known as the “Student Rays,” and was printed monthly. In 1933 the name of the newspaper changed to “The Purple Flash.” In 1937 the name was changed again to “Viking Flashes,” and in 1938 the name finally changed to “The Viking Scroll.” The paper continued under this name until 1972, when it changed to “The Scroll.” The Scroll is still in print at BYU-Idaho as its official newspaper.

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Tuesday, April 14, 1998
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Pitching for equality
Gender balance has improved for
Ricks athletic teams with Title IX
BY CHRIS KELLER
Scroll staff
Three years ago, Ricks College didn't have a soft-ball
team.
Now, after its inaugural seasons, Ricks' Softball
team has a 10th and third place national finish under
its belt and is currently ranked third in the nation
— quite a feat for such a new organization.
The decision to instate a women's Softball
team at Ricks was an effort to comply with
court rulings dealing with Title IX contro­versies
of unequal gender opportunities
in athletics nationwide.
Title IX is a section of the 1972
Federal Education Amendments that
states "no person in the United
States shall, on the basis of sex
... be subjected to discrimina­tion
under any education pro­gram
or activity receiving
federal financial assis­tance."
Ricks, though a pri­vate
institution, does
have to comply with the
Title IX Amendment.
Brent Kinghorn, vice
president of community service in charge of athlet­ics,
explained that Ricks is indirectly obligated to
comply with the amendment because it accepts stu­dents
who receive Federal Pell Grants.
"Government has decided that any institution
which receives students who receive federal aid is
subject to the requirements of Title IX" Kinghorn
said.
So far, gender equity has not been a big problem
at Ricks as it has at other universities, Garth Hall\,
who has been at Ricks one year as athletic director,
said.
To be sanctioned by the National Junior College
Athletic Association and the Office of Civil Rights,
an institution must be able to prove compliance in
one criteria of a three-fold test:
1. Opportunity for male and female athletes must
be proportionate to the percentage of male and
female students.
2. When one sex has been under-represented, a
history and continuing practice of program expan­sion
to the developing interests and abilities of that
sex must be shown.
3. When one sex is under-represented and it can be
demonstrated that the interests and abilities of that
sex have been fully and effectively accommodated
please see TITLE IX, Page 45
Measuring up...
Title IX requirements
Athletic opportunity must be
proportionate to the percent­age
of male and female stu­dents.
When one sex has been
under-represented, a history
and continuing practice of
program expansion for that
sex must be shown.
When under-represented, the
interests and abilities of a sex
must fully and effectively be
accommodated.
Ricks compliance
Ricks' student body is 56 per­cent
female; about 32 per­cent
of athletes are female.
Ricks added softball as a var­sity
sport three years ago, to
expand women athletics.
Presently there are no plans
to add other women's sports.
Through student surveys.
Ricks has provided athletic
opportunity equal to interest.
Source: Ricks Athletic Department
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